English councils are set to receive an increase of around 7% in grant when ministers unveil the provisional 2002/03 finance settlement next week, Public Finance can reveal.
The Employers Organisation is to set up a graduate training programme to try to attract some of the brightest and best university students into a career in local government.
The future of the Public Private Partnership Programme looks increasingly uncertain after it was confirmed that there are currently no plans to replace outgoing chief executive Peter Fanning.
As the British government muses over the future of local democracy, a cluster of countries is grappling with the gargantuan task of creating local government in a bid to join the European Union.
UK local authorities are edging ahead of their US counterparts in offering public services on-line, according to research published by an e-government business group.
Unison members at Westminster City Council have threatened to walk out over plans for a £1bn outsourcing contract intended to improve customer services.
Enlargement of the European Union is now vital to the security of member states following the events of September 11, members of the Committee of the Regions were told this week.
The Local Government Association has declared its 'emphatic' opposition to any attempt by the government to ring-fence local authorities' education budgets.
The chair of the new regulatory body for councillors pledged to restore the public's faith in local politics as the organisation was officially launched on November 6.
Pressure is mounting on ministers to introduce rent capping to protect tenants from large increases as social landlords get to grips with rent restructuring.
Voter apathy has reached crisis point and the government must take urgent action to resuscitate democracy in Britain, senior backbench MPs urged this week.
Albert Bore, one of local government's few campaigners for directly elected mayors, has narrowly survived a challenge to his leadership of Birmingham City Council.
Local councils could be forced to delve deep into their reserves to shore up their employees' pension funds despite the government's insistence that an actuarial review of the market will uncover few...
Audit Commission controller Sir Andrew Foster has revealed plans to work with a Welsh local authority to develop its much-vaunted new model for Best Value inspections.
The Local Government Association has demanded assurances that the government's shake-up of the asylum system will include funding for services provided by councils.
The government's review of Best Value could escalate the costs of delivering council services, raising the spectre of future cuts in vulnerable areas, it has emerged.
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has insisted it is not being marginalised despite a government decision to launch a large-scale clinical trial of multiple sclerosis drugs that Nice had...
Children placed in bed and breakfast accommodation because their family is homeless are missing out on important health checks, the government told local authorities this week.
Local authorities need to address the failings rampant in the administration of housing benefit as poor management is causing hardship for claimants, according to the Audit Commission.
The political future of Scottish First Minister Henry McLeish was under threat this week as a police investigation began into what he called an 'error' over income received from a tenant for space...
Pressure is mounting on the Treasury to come clean on how public spending is officially defined in the wake of the Railtrack collapse and allegations that it disguised projected spending increases as...
Councils in Northern Ireland are threatening to take legal action against the soon-to-be-appointed first minister and deputy first minister if they are not consulted over nominations to Europe's...
